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Creating a Flux Dev LORA - Full Guide

Getting Started In this guide, weā€™ll walk through how to train LORAs for the Flux AI Image generation model end to end including: Tools and tips for building and organizing the dataset Captioning options Training the model using a Comfy UI workflow Testing the LORA This method was used to generate: NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Amiga Deluxepaint Specs Required This guide was written with a 24GB Geforce RTX 3090 and 24GB RAM....

October 27, 2024 Ā· 6 min Ā· 1244 words Ā· P.W.

Making the Ideal 3d Printer Montioring Live-Stream

See a clip of the monitor in action here! The Octoprint Problem I donā€™t know exactly how long Iā€™ve been using Octoprint to manage my 3d printers, but I canā€™t remember a time I had a printer and didnā€™t use Octoprint. Itā€™s a fantastic piece of software for everything 3dprint related with one glaring exception ā€“ Live camera monitoring. Octoprintā€™s live monitoring only supports cameras like Picam, that serve a URL you can poll and get an Mjpeg....

April 13, 2024 Ā· 6 min Ā· 1129 words Ā· P.W.

A Better Bookmark Experience with Raindrop.io and Logseq

Bookmarks Suck Bookmarks, which should be such a fundamental and powerful part of browsing the web, has got to be one of the most poorly executed parts of our modern browsing experience. While browsers focus on developing more spyware bloat and UI features few users will ever see, thereā€™s not an easy native way I have found to successfully collect, organize and be able to use a large personal collection of links....

March 13, 2024 Ā· 4 min Ā· 719 words Ā· P.W.

Creating an RSS Newsletter for your Hugo Blog using Brevo

It Was Supposed to Be So Easyā€¦ If youā€™re running a blog on a static site generator stack, you may have looked into setting up email automation and a subscriber list. If youā€™re a devout follower of the lazy dev principles, you probably also thought about automating this then noticed all the RSS output controls that frameworks like Hugo provide out of the box. Great ā€“ Now you just need to find an email service with a free tier and RSS integration ā€“ Easy, right?...

October 10, 2023 Ā· 5 min Ā· 994 words Ā· P.W.

AI Generated QR Codes with Stable Diffusion and ControlNet

ControlNet was released early this year and lets you ā€˜controlā€™ image generation in Stable Diffusion images with normals/depth maps, face poses, globally aware inpainting, and more. Learning how to use ControlNet has been on my to-do list for some time, but I lacked a project interesting enough to really get started on that. If you want a good general overview and guide for using ControlNet, take a look here. ā€¦ in life the QRCodeMonsters win I first found QRCodeMonster after seeing this meme on the Stable Diffusion Reddit and being curious how they got that working....

October 6, 2023 Ā· 6 min Ā· 1092 words Ā· P.W.